Mother sentenced to more than two years jail time in connection to death of infant son

A woman has been sentenced to 27 months in prison in
connection to the death of her nine-week-old son in a
bizarre case where the infant boy’s body has yet to be
recovered.

Both parents Ricky Ray Doodhnaught, 32, and Nadia
Ayyad, 24, have been implicated in the case that dates
back to November 2011 when Children’s Aid workers along
with York Regional Police attempted to seize two
children under a court order from a Vaughan home.

The infant George Doodhnaught, whose body has never been found.

Doodhnaught fled from police and CAS workers at that
time. Only one child was located and removed from the
home. Police believed Doodhnaught had taken their son
George with him.

After Doodhnaught was arrested several weeks later on
Dec. 6 and the boy was not located, he told police his
son, who was born prematurely, had died on or around
Nov. 1. The homicide unit was called in to investigate.

The boy’s mother, Ayyad, was arrested on Dec. 21 and
charged with indignity to a dead body, failing to
provide the necessities of life and obstructing police.

She plead guilty to those charges on Feb. 7 and was
sentenced on Wednesday. She will spend four months in
prison in addition to time already served since her
arrest.

Last summer, Doodhnaught pleaded guilty to indignity
to a body and failing to stop for police in a separate
incident in Toronto. He was previously charged with
failing to provide the necessities of life and abduction
in contravention of a custody order.

Doodhnaught was sentenced to 33 months in prison and
has a remaining 23 months left to serve, police said.
Ayyad will also be on probation for three years after
she leaves prison.

Despite not having recovered the boy’s body, police
said there was adequate evidence to lay the rare
indignity to a body charge.

“The charge was laid based on evidence that came to
light as part of the investigation,” said Const. Andy
Pattenden. “They had reasonable belief that indignity to
the body had occurred even though the body had not been
recovered.”

Earlier in the investigation, police had said
Doodhnaught was not co-operating in attempts to find the
boy. Police said again Wednesday his remains have yet to
be located.

Mother Charged with killing baby

Firefighters Find Baby's Body In Washing Machine

Fire Officials Claim Fire Intentionally Set

NBC4-TV, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

LOS ANGELES, USA -- Murder charges are expected to be filed against a
woman whose infant son's body was found in a washing machine after firefighters
doused what they say was an intentionally set fire, authorities said Tuesday.

Latunga Starks, 32, was taken into custody last night, according to the
Sheriff's Department Web site.

New Brunswick woman ruled responsible in burning
of baby's body

ST. STEPHEN, N.B. — A New Brunswick judge says a woman who burned and
dismembered her newborn son is criminally responsible for her actions.

Becky Sue Morrow earlier pleaded guilty to offering an indignity to a
dead body and disposing of a newborn with the intent of concealing a delivery.

Judge David Walker ruled Friday that the 27-year-old woman may have been
suffering from a mental disorder when she delivered the baby but that that
was not the case when the baby's body was burned and its remains hidden.

It is not known if the baby was alive at the time of birth.

At a hearing last month, the court heard contrasting reports from the
two psychiatrists. One said Ms. Morrow was in a “disassociated” mental state
when the crime occurred. The other said she clearly planned her actions
and understood the consequences.
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Days after buying another woman Valentine's Day flowers, a Sydney father came home to find a trail of blood leading him to the bodies of his two young children lying next to their mother, a court has been told.

Australian Associated Press
Aug 24 2009

The woman had given the couple's three-year-old daughter and
four-year-old son rat poison and an unidentified pink liquid before
smothering them and killing them, court papers said.

She then tried to take her own life, the NSW Supreme Court was told.

Doctors agree the mother, from Canley Heights in Sydney's west, was
suffering from "major depression" when she poisoned her children on
February 19 last year.

She has pleaded not guilty to the two murders by reason of mental
illness.

As her judge-alone trial began, the mother's lawyer told Justice
Clifton Hoeben his client didn't think life was worth living after
learning about her husband's affair.
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Nearly one in 10 girls and one in 20 boys say they have been raped or
experienced some other form of abusive violence on a date, according to
a study released Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association.
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Woman convicted of killing 3 kids after custody
battle

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, USA, August 26, 2008

HELSINKI, Finland - A court in Finland has convicted a woman of murdering
her three young children and has given her a life sentence.

The Espoo District Court says Thai-born Yu-Hsiu Fu was found guilty of
strangling her 8-year-old twin daughters and 1-year-old son in her home.

She tried to kill herself afterward.

The verdict on Tuesday says the 41-year-old woman was found to be of
sound mind at the time of the murders.

Court papers show the murders were preceded by a bitter custody battle
with her Finnish husband who was living separately from her at the time
of the murders.

A life sentence in Finland mean convicts usually serve at least 11 years
in prison.